Sentences with phrase «spot typos»

Professional proofreaders and copyeditors are just like you and me — they put their pants on one leg at a time in the morning, and they don't possess magical superpowers that allow them to spot typos ordinary people can't see.

As always, before sending a cover letter or resume take the time to read it out loud to yourself to spot any typos or grammatical errors, and always use spell check!

Most times you can spot typos and other errors and make sure the most valuable information is included.

But an outside reviewer can easily spot typos; missing or duplicate words; incorrect usage («their» versus «they're») and other obvious errors.

It's easier to spot typos and formatting errors on a printed sheet than on a computer monitor.

If you spot any typos or inexplicable references to birds, it's probably one of his cats «helping out.»

You can often spot typos in the address and fix them yourself.

It is annoying for readers to spot typos or errors while reading a book and that's why even the very best authors in the world need editors and proof - readers.

A real millionaire has stellar education and is also meticulous as far as his image is concerned so there is no reason for you to spot some typos in his profile description.

Eagle - eyed viewers spotted the typo when Dame Judi's nomination in the Outstanding Performance By a Female Actor category was announced.

As usual, feedback welcome... (sorry, re-loaded after spotting typos!)

Over the course of a couple of years, I'd sent copies to several writer - friends, who'd generously read it, spotted typos, and offered helpful suggestions.

What I'll need from you is more format checking than actual proofreading — though if you do actually spot a typo of any kind, let me know.

By the way, if anyone spots any typos in How To Find Your Vital Vocation, please let me know and I'll fix «em!

Yes, we can all spot a typo here and there, that's what the spell check function is for, but when you're hiring someone to edit your book, you want someone with experience, not just in your genre but overall.

She hadn't spotted the typos, and neither had her editor, copyeditor, or proofreader.

Every author, whether indie or trad, knows the horror of seeing your book in print for the first time and spotting a typo.

In the year since we first uploaded this paper, we have had some useful comments from a number of readers of version 0.1, who between them have provided helpful feedback, spotted typos / mistakes, and suggested some relevant additional references.

A courtly and no - nonsense transactional lawyer based in Boston, Vance isn't the sort to focus on spotting typos.

A recent study by a national employment website found that one out of four executives will throw a resume in the garbage (or hit the «delete» button) as soon as they spot a typo.

Proofread carefully, and have a trusted friend do the same, to save the embarrassment of spotting a typo or grammatical error after you send.

Not exact matches

Doing so will likely oust any typos, missing words, or other errors you may not have spotted.

In fact, it's scientifically proven that we struggle to spot our own typos.

Time to clear out a spot in the Typo Hall of Fame.

Hello, thank you for spotting that, there was indeed a typo!

A second pair of eyes may spot embarassing typos and tin - eared boasts.

To name but a few: I've had mercs spotted through walls, enemies alerted to a mercs presence for no apparent reason (yes I understand the stealth mechanics), enemy AI is appalling (you can eliminate a building full of enemies but just running a merc around the perimeter of the building, thus alerting the enemies, and then shooting them all as they come out of the door), the game is riddled with typos (e.g. some of the mercs have a trait called «though», which is obviously meant to be «tough»), the voices acting is poor and annoying (who honestly wants to have their merc scream the same phrase over and over again every time you select them?)

PS Typo in the rubric for Ex C spotted and now fixed.

There was a typo but I now can spot it.

Quality assurance professionals look at the produced content through the eyes of the end user, spotting both typos and technical errors.

Imagine getting a great endorsement or review or spotting an embarrassing typo on the first page (it happens).

My eyeballs hurt from looking at the «good enoughs» and I've stopped as soon as I spot multiple typos, sentences that make no sense and / or the book looks like it came off a gluing session at the kitchen table.

I want the books to be as good as they can be and it annoys me when people spot the odd typo or clumsy sentence, etc..

With «tapping», most typos happen because your finger «lands» on the wrong spot — Swype takes that away.

There's really no science to this, but looks like the sweet spot at getting some of these better Amex credit card offers is to provide the correct info with some «typos».

I spotted that typo immediately and we're in the process of updating it thank you: D

>> >> Thanks x10 ** 6 >> >> best, peck >> >> > Dear Eystein, Peck and Keith, >> > >> > I spotted a minor error in the MWP figure >> > (reference period was 1001 - 2000 but should >> > have been 1001 - 1980 because some series stop >> > in 1980) and a typo in the legend, so here is >> > a revised MWP figure with these things >> > corrected and a slight adjustment to line >> > thicknesses and font sizes.

As to Monckton's specific claim, that was an typo that many people spotted immediately.

PerfectIt spots legal - specific typos, inconsistencies, and other mistakes that no spell check or grammar check can find.

Spot uses of the passive voice, sentences that are unusually long, certain citation errors, and typos that other spell checkers miss.

Review and check for errors — read the entire document backwards word by word to help spot easily overlooked typos that are sometimes missed by spellcheck.